Wheel-guard.



1. w. DYESS. WHEEL GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-7, 1916.

1,200,473. Patented Oct. 10,1916.

Inventor,

Witnesses Attorneys JOSHUA WILLIAM DYESS, OF HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI.

WHEEL-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

Application filed August 7, 1916. Serial No. 113,581.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA XV. Drnss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hattiesburg, in the county of Forrest and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Wheel-Guard, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a wheel guard, and one object of the present invention is to improve the construction of the fender portions of the guard, so that the same will exert a raking action on the object engaged by the fender portions of the guard, the construction being such that the lower ends of the fender portions of the guard will be swung upwardlv, when engaged by an object, as

. distinguished from being swung downwardly by the object, into contact with the rail.

Another object of the invention is to improve the mounting of the upper ends of the fenders, and to render the mountings of the upper ends of the fenders secure.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means whereby the arm which supports the fenders will be prevented from swinging laterally.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

lVith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description pro ceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a car truck equipped with the present invention; Fig. 2 is an end elevation showing a truck equipped with the device herein disclosed; Fig. 3 is a fragmental section taken approximately on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section taken approximately on the line 44 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a section taken approximately on the line 55 of Fig. 2.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings there is shown a car truck including a bolster 1 and a cross beam 2. An upper arch bar 3 is shown, and the numeral 4 designates a lower arch bar, the arch bars 3 and 4 being connected by means of bolts 5 with the cross beam 2 in the usual manner. The ends 6 of the arch bars 3 and 4 are located on top of ournal boxes 7 which support axles 8 carrying wheels 9 adapted to coact with a track 10. By means of bolts 11, the ends 6 of the arch bars 3 and 4 are connected with the boxes 7 The construction above described is a common one in the car builders art.

In carrying out the present invention, horizontal arms 12 are provided. The arms 12 preferably are in the form of angle menibers,each including a horizontal flange 14 and a vertical flange 15. The horizontal flanges 14 of the arms 12 are superposed on the ends 6 of the arch bars 3 and 4 and are held thereto by the bolts 11. The vertical flanges 15 of the arms 12 overlap the outer faces of the boxes 7, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

Owing to the construction above described, the arms 12 are held securely on the boxes 7 against lateral swinging movement in a horizontal plane, and the strain on the bolts 11 is reduced greatly. The ends 26 of the arms 12 are set inwardly toward the longitudinalcenter of the car truck, so that these ends of the arms will be alined with the wheels 9. The ends 26 of the arms 12 are connected by a cross rail 16 which preferably is an angle member, including a horizontal flange l7 and a vertical flange 18. The horizontal flange 17 of the cross rail 16 overlaps the horizontal flanges 14 of the arms 12 and is secured thereto by rivets 2] or other attaching elements.

The invention includes fenders 19, each fender 19 having at its upper end, a horizon tal extension 20 overlapped on the horizon tal flange 17 of the cross rail 16 and se cured thereto by the rivets 21. The body portions of the fenders 19 are attached by means securing elements 22, to the vertical flanges of the cross rail 16, as indicated in Fig. 5. The fenders 19 are connected, at each side of the car truck, by side slats 23. The side slats 23 terminate in inwardly projecting fingers 24 secured to the inner faces of the fender 19 by means of attaching elements 25, which may be countersunk rivets. The fingers 24 exercise an important function in that, should the frame comprising the side slats 23 and the fenders 19 yield, longitudinally ofthe track 10, the fingers 24 will come into contact with the periphery of the wheels 9, thus limiting the springing movement of the frame, before the fenders l9 come into contact with the wheels. The fenders 19 at each side of the truck are carried toward each other, so that they extend beneath the wheels 9. The lower ends 27 of the fenders 19 preferably are flexed outwardly, in opposite directions, longitudinally of the rail 10. It is to be observed that the lower ends 27 of the fenders 19 lie between the points 21 of connection between the upper ends of the fenders and the arms 12 upon the one hand, and the axles 8 upon the other hand. Consequently, the lower ends 27 of the fenders, exercise a raking action on an object encountered by the fenders. 'I'he tendency in the lower ends of the fenders, therefore, when they engage an object, is to swing upwardly, toward the periphery of the wheel, thereby spacing the lower ends of the fenders from the track 10 and preventing a possible engagement between the lower ends of the fenders and the track.

The device herein disclosed preferably is fashioned of metal throughout.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimd is l. The combination with a truck frame and a wheel journaled thereon, of an arm secured to the frame, and a depending fender attached at its upper end to the arm, the lower end of the fender being extended beneath the wheel, and lying between the point of attachment between the upper end of the fender and the arm, on the one hand, and the center of rotation of the wheel, on the other hand, whereby the lower end of the fender will exercise a raking action on an object encountered by the lower end of the fender, and be swung by such object, upwardly toward th periphery of the wheel.

2. In a device of the class described, a truck including a bearing box; an axle journaled in the box; a wheel carried by the axle; a pair of arch bars having their ends superposed on the box; an angle member including a horizontal flange resting on the ends of the arch bars, and a vertical flange overlapping the outer face of the box; securing elements uniting the horizontal flange of the angle member and the ends of the arch bars with the box; and a fender secured to the arm and depending therefrom, the fender cooperating with the wheel.

3. In a device of the class described, a truck comprising a bearing box; an axle journaled in the bearing box; a wheel carried by the axle; an arm comprising a. horizontal flange disposed above the box, and a vertical flange coacting with the outer face of the box; means for securing the horizontal flange of the arm to the box; a cross bar in the form of an angle member, and including a horizontal flange disposed on the horizontal flange of the arm, and a vertical flange cooperating with the end of the arm; a depending fender including an angular extension superposed on the horizontal flange of the cross bar; a securing element uniting the extension of the fender, the horizontal flange of the cross bar and the horizontal flange of the arm; and a securing element uniting the body portion of the fender with the vertical flange of the cross bar.

4. In a device of the class described, a car truck including a frame and wheels journaled thereon; a pair of fenders cooperating with the wheels; means for securing the fenders to the frame; a slat extended longitudinally of the truck and including inwardly extended fingers secured to the fenders between the fenders and the wheels, and constituting stops adapted to coact with the peripheries of the wheels, to prevent the.

fenders from coming into contact with the wheels, when the fenders yield.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSHUA IVILLIAM DYESS.

H. E. CLARK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington,D.C. 

